Red Wings’ Steve Yzerman Understands Fans’ Frustration, but Says, ‘I See Progress’

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Wings beat reporter Ted Kulfan is in Traverse City for the first day of training camp in Steve Yzerman's seventh season as GM.

Red Wings’ Steve Yzerman understands fans’ frustration, but says, ‘I see progress’

DETROIT — Red Wings fans are getting frustrated and would like to see the team’s nine-year playoff drought end. They’re tired of hearing the word “rebuild” from Red Wings officials. General manager Steve Yzerman understands that — Yzerman believes this year’s team, which begins training camp Thursday, will be better than last year’s — but isn’t going to do anything impulsive to try to speed up the process. “Our goal is improve from last year,” s…

Yzerman believes that the Red Wings’ youth movement must deliver

MLive’s Ansar Khan found a set of comments from Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman’s morning press conference which summarize the GM’s outlook for the 2025-2026 Red Wings team: “I see progress in the organization,” Yzerman said Wednesday while addressing the media on the eve of training camp in Traverse City. “I look at the young players coming into the organization — I look at the young players playing on the Detroit Red Wings today — I’m hopeful that…